It has been a busy month for Troop 55!

We had 18 scouts and adults go to OKPIK for winter camping. They had an amazing experience camping in subzero weather.

We submitted out 2025 Philmont trek preferences. We will find out net month what trek we get. Awesome job by the scouts filling out the survey and then selecting and ranking the treks.

In 2026, we will be at SeaBase in the Bahamas on the Tall Ship! We tried to get that 2 years ago and failed. We are super excited to have all our scouts and adults on one ship.

More to come . . .

Our High Adventure plans are getting finalized.

We have a full crew headed to Philmont this summer.

2 crews headed to OKPIK for winter camping in January. 1 lake stay and 1 cabin stay.

1 crew headed to Philmont in 2025.

Plans for another SeaBase trip in 2026.

So many fun things ahead for our scouts (and adults).

Liz has started a survey to see what the scouts and scouters want to do in the next few years. We have a full crew headed to Philmont in 2024. Hoping for OKPIK in 2025. Looking at SeaBase and Summit Bechtel for 2025 and 2026. Just have to decide where they fit. Looks like a LOT of fun coming up in the next few years.

We have had a very strong High Adventure Program in our Troop over the years, and it’s good to see it is in good hands with Liz.

Liz has taken over our High Adventure program and it is in good hands. We are formulating a plan for future Philmont treks, OKPIK, SeaBase and Bechtel Summit adventures over the next few years.

We had our Wilderness First Aid class today with 22 registered and 20 attending. They were a great group, had a lot of fun and felt like they learned a lot. A huge thank you to Ed, Brian, Lauren and Ariana for helping to teach.

Our next class is in April. Registration is now open on the council Calendar.

Troop 55 has 2 High Adventure trips planned for 2023.

We currently have a lake stay planned for OKPIK (Ely, Minn) in January. We may add a cabin stay for our younger scouts if we have enough interest. Currently, have 2 interested, need at least 3 more.

SeaBase 2023. We have 3 Coral Reef Sailing trips planned. We have room for 24 scouts and adults and have 21 spots filled. We are looking to fill the last 3 spots. We have flights out of Minneapolis reserved for 24. Leaving 3/11/23 and returning 3/17/22. Having done this in the past, it is SO much fun. Besides living on a 50 ft sailing vessel, you also get to snorkel on 2 or 3 reefs. Absolutely beautiful!

Its been a busy last 2 months.

We have a crew going to Philmont later this year. We now have that crew filled! Awesome!

OKPIK 2022 – we have 2 crews going. The cabin stay has 1 spot left unless we increase to 11. The lake stay crew is up to 10, we have room for 1 more person. Hoping to fill both crews.

Philmont 2022 – our crew is filled.

Last weekend was our Councils Wilderness First Aid training. So much fun to help with as one of the instructors. If you haven’t taken the course, do it. Its an amazing course, and you may need it on an outing at some point. We had 19 attendees. Happy to see so many scouts taking the course.